Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Blahnik, Vencel L 1862 - 
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Author: Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.)

Vencel L. Blahnik, of the firm of V. L. Blahnik & Sons, 1835 West Forty-
seventh street, was born in the village of Malo Polenka, Bohemia, Austria, on 
August 1, 1862, and is a son of John and Maria (Rejcha) Blahnik. In 1872 
Vencel L. came to the United States and located in Chicago. He soon entered 
the drug store of his brother Lorenz who had settled here in 1867 and was the 
first Bohemian druggist in the city. With him Vencel L. learned the drug 
business. He was educated in the public schools and was graduated from the 
Chicago College of Pharmacy in 1888. In August, 1889, his brother died, 
whereupon he purchased the business at 88 West Eighteenth street which he 
conducted until 1891, when he sold out and opened a new store at 372 West 
Eighteenth street. This store and others he conducted prior to 1903. At the 
latter date he opened his present drug store at 1733 West Forty-seventh 
street. Here he quickly built up a large and lucrative business. In the summer 
of 1909 he admitted his sons into partnership with him. Mr. Blahnik is one of 
the well-known citizens and successful business men of the city. He is a Royal 
Arch Mason and a member of the Bohemian Turners' society, the Modern Woodmen 
of America, and in politics is a Republican. In 1883 Mr. Blahnik married 
Antonia, daughter of Frank Jedlinsky, and by her has four children: Mary R., 
wife of C. J. Cernoch, Karel, Lawrence and Emil.

Additional Comments:
Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.). (1909). History of Cook County, 
Illinois. Chicago: The Goodspeed Historical Association.

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